Improvement in corset skirt-supporters



UNITED STATES ATENT LAVINIA H. FOY, OF WOICESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSET SKIRT-SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 39,911, dated September 15, 1863.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, LAVINIA H. For, of the city and county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset Skirt-Supporters, Sto. 5 and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specitication, and in which- Figure l, Sheet 1, represents afront View of my improved corset skirtsupporter; Fig. l, Sheet 2, represents a back view of the upper part or section thereof, while Figs.2, 3, 4, and 5, and sections A, B, C, and D, represent detached parts, and are designed more particularly to illustrate the forms of the bottoms of the pieces which form the extension-rim or supporter, and the particular mode of binding the same, as will be more fully described hereinafter. A

In Fig. 1, Sheet 1, I represents the body of the article which is fastened in front by the metal clasps a a a, in the usual and wellknown mode of fastening corsets in which steel springs are used.

J J are the shoulder-straps, provided with elastics b b, their front ends being retained by the buckles c c, attached to the front ofthe body I. (See Fig.1, Sheet 1.) The back of the body I is left open and laced up, as fully shown in Figs. 1, Sheets 1 and 2, whereby the upper part ofthe body I can be adj usted and the shoulderstraps thrown farther off of the shoulders whenever desired. The frontof the body I is left open, as seen at K K, and provided with lacings d d, whereby the size of the central part of the body I can be very quickly adjusted and varied in size, and that, too, without in the least impairing the form or action of the skirtysupporting rim L, since the openings K K are both in front of the points e e of the extensor Ali. If preferred, the openings K K could extend quite through the bottom of body l, instead of being closed, as seen at f f. The extensor or supporting-rim L is formed from the lower parts or bottoms of the pieces which go to make up the back of body I, the general form of which is shown in the drawings, Figs. 2, 3, and 4. When these pieces are sewed together and the hoop M inserted, the extensor or rim L is produced. The rim or extensor L is bound in a novel and peculiar manner, whereby the outer edge thereof' has a corded appearance, while the binding-piece is made to answer as a case to receive and retain the hoop M. Strips of cloth of suflcient length and width tobind with are cut bias, and then one edge, g, is folded over, as vseen in Fig. 5, Sheet 2, when the single edge h is stretched so as to give the proper curved form, as indicated in the same figure. The binding-piece is then placed with its single edge It next to the liningt' of the facecloth N, as indicated in section-line B, which is designed to represent line A B, Fig. 2, when the parts are placed together for stitching. After the edges h, t', and N are stitched together the loop part j is turned over upon the other side of the face-cloth N, so as to brin g the edge g in close proximity to the edges h, i, and N, when all of the thicknesses are stitched together just back of the firstistitching, whereby the edges h, i, N and g are all turned in and brought together outside of the seam 7c, Figs. 3 and 4, thereby giving the article the appearance of corded work, as seen at O, same figures. All that remains is to stitch another seam at m, when the hoop M can be inserted, the article having the finished appearance indicated in Fig. 4. In the sections B C D of the lines A I3 C D and E F the relative positions of the different thicknesses of cloth are represented in a loose and expanded condition, with a view to illustrate more fully the mode or operation of binding. When, however, the stitching is performed, the parts are all drawn closely -together and assume a compact and neat appearance, the edges O and P assuming rounded forms. It will be observed that by folding the edge g as shown, that too much bulk and thickness is avoided in the outer seams and edge, and a neater piece of work produced than if the edge g folded down even with the edge IL besides, the curved form is more readily produced by stitching a single edge, as showin 1f preferred, one or both of the openings K could'i'be extended from top to bottom.

p pp p are metal caps placed over the ends ofthe springs and Whalebones.

Haviu g described my improved corset skirtsupporter, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Cutting the binding cloth bias, in combi nation with the mode of applying the sameto the extensor or outer edge of the rim L, whereboth iu front aud iu back, substantially as by all gathering is avoided, While :n corded shown and described. appearance and :i Case for the hoop M are el. Forming the oase for the hoop and corded produced, substantially as set forth. l edges O and l) from the same piece of bias- 2. The combination of laced openings K K, out cloth, as shown and described. or either of them, with the front part of the l fitliessesz LAVINIA H. FOY. bod y I, substantially as set forth. ALLEN THAYER,

3. rlhe body I, open infront and adjustable i ANNA B. JACKSON. 

